[American Shoppers] Has Yesasia increased their prices?

[orangeland]

Has anyone noticed this? I didn't realize the dollar was losing value that much

[zoomzoom]

Hmm the dollar stinks currently.

[v3lun420]

Hm.... dollar is in its lowest points nowadays. Hope this will be over soon.

[Catzi]

The dollar was lowered so that in the future the dollar will be strong again. It sounds like an oxymoron, but it makes sense. I don't want to too much into politics/economy....

[fanmail]

It's hard to explain, but all the currency values increase/decrease. It happens with the £ too. Like, I might put some things together that'll come to £50, and the next day it'll be £52. Is that what you mean? But in $ =/

[KuroixShiroi_Namida]

I think AUD is kinda increasing lol.

[orangeland]

lol well i understand that currencies increase and decrease in value... i'm not that lost guys haha. but yeah, am i not crazy for thinking that a typical ayu album (cd only) was around like $27 last week and now it's like $30 ish on yesasia?

[bondingo]

Originally Posted by orangeland

lol well i understand that currencies increase and decrease in value... i'm not that lost guys haha. but yeah, am i not crazy for thinking that a typical ayu album (cd only) was around like $27 last week and now it's like $30 ish on yesasia?

I think it's the Yen that's rising in value rather than the US dollar going down in value. When I was in Japan, US $1 was equal to roughly 89 Yen, but now $1 is just about 100 Yen.

[qwerty]

Does anyone else besides me think that it's crazy how the edition of MW that comes with the DVD and poster costs almost $30? The dollar is really weak right now.

[Suteisi]

Originally Posted by qwerty

Does anyone else besides me think that it's crazy how the edition of MW that comes with the DVD and poster costs almost $30? The dollar is really weak right now.

I highly doubt that.

The Canadian dollar is slightly higher than the American dollar, and it's sold for 17-20$ or so. If a website sells Ayu singles for 30$ you don't want to buy from them, that's just over-priced.

The posters are first press editions too, and called 'special bonus' which means you don't pay for them. People who bought MW first press and got the poster paid the same amount than others who bought MW CD+DVD not first press and didn't get the poster.

[GRACE]

I noticed it, I payed 20 something bucks for Nami's new album when I pre-ordered it not even two weeks ago, now it's 30 bucks.

[che0173]

ummm
i thought USD went back up again!?
coz ummm, wen i was buying off Crescent shop, it went from 95.xxyen per 1USD up to 96.96yen per 1USD =D
and wen paying via paypal it went from 1aud = 0.89xxxxxxUSD to 1aud = 0.92xxxxxxxUSD
that is quite a jump in 1 weeks time =S

I noticed prices went up but I thought it was due to supply & demand (I was looking at limited edition stuff). The US dollar is doing better against the yen than it was like a month ago, so I dunno what could be the direct cause.

[vuong22]

I know the tax went up on store albums

[che0173]

tax went up!?
and wat do you mean "store albums"?

[Deneb]

dunno if whether us is dropping or aud rising, but AUD IS CATCHING UP TO USD w00t

don't they charge hkd. and hkd is always 7 to 1 usd ~_~

[qwerty]

^Maybe YesAsia is just ripping people off, then. It costs $30 for the MW CD+DVD with the poster on YesAsia, I think.

[M_aria]

I don't think it's all got to do with the decline in value of the dollar. I mean, they are a business, maybe they figured they could risk raising prices a bit and not lose customers and make more profit. Maybe they had to raise prices, for some cost related reason (maybe to cover costs due to their free shipping offer LOL). There are a lot of reasons why they might raise prices.

Honestly, I've never noticed if they were getting more expensive. Not that I'm so well off that things like that don't matter, but it never caught my attention.

[criminal]

I know, it sucks. I was all, like, "WOW, aiko's new album is $27.99! Good to know!" and then a few days later, "UGH, $30.99? Puh-lease!"

[che0173]

LOLS yeaaaa, i think Yesasia is just increasing their prices because lots they have lots of customers and by increasing their items by a few dollars, they can make thousands more in just one day...coz their frequent customers wont stop just because of a few bucks...